Whimsical levels of artifice

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Whimsical levels of artifice

So, the dancing was … somewhere on the slippery slope between weird and cool, I am not quite sure which ultimately won. Or would have won, had there not been a conscious decision at some point to simply accept that all the music there was ever going to be that evening would be stuff to which a strong and loud 4/4 artificial beat had been added via the inclusion of an electronic drum kit – and the beat was of the same speed, too, always. Basically, you could start moving in a certain pattern and stop three hours later, without variation having been called for. Also, it’s possible to do really horrible things to “Tubular Bells”. Aside from that one trick pony the guy who did the sampling was not without skill, and the people there all seemed to really enjoy themselves. It kind of felt like a student party at someone’s house (who happens to have a large empty room with a plywood floor), but it’s 20 years later and everyone has aged accordingly, yet the location and the music remains the same (well, plus the added beat). It definitely didn’t beat surfing across the dancefloor to the Beach Boys, though. (Not that there were any chairs.) Will I go back? Who knows!

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On perception(s)

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

A few words on …

... points of view, relativity, postmodernity, language, literature, the ineluctable modality of the visible and of everything else … and generally on things that I find fascinating and want to share with the world.
I plan to blog about thought provoking academic articles that I think might be interesting for a wider audience to read than might usually encounter them, and there're also going to be some photographs and (bad) poems, and some links to interesting and cool stuff, and and and, you know … stuff!